Job Producer
Years active 1917-53
Top Roles Crowd Extra in Chariot Race
Top GenresDrama, Romance, Comedy, Musical, Silent Films, Film Adaptation
Top TopicsBook-Based, Romance (Drama), Marriage
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Samuel Goldwyn Overview:

Legendary producer, Samuel Goldwyn, was born Schmuel Gelbfisz on Aug 17, 1879 in Warsaw, Poland. Goldwyn died at the age of 94 on Jan 31, 1974 in Los Angeles, CA and was laid to rest in Forest Lawn (Glendale) Cemetery in Glendale, CA.

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Samuel Goldwyn was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning one for Best Picture for The Best Years of Our Lives in 1946. He also won two Honorary Awards in 1946 and 1957 Samuel Goldwyn .

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1931/32Best PictureArrowsmith (1931)N/ANominated
1936Best PictureDodsworth (1936)N/ANominated
1937Best PictureDead End (1937)N/ANominated
1937Best Music - ScoringThe Hurricane (1937)N/ANominated
1939Best PictureWuthering Heights (1939)N/ANominated
1941Best PictureThe Little Foxes (1941)N/ANominated
1942Best PictureThe Pride of the Yankees (1942)N/ANominated
1946Best PictureThe Best Years of Our Lives (1946)N/AWon
1947Best PictureThe Bishop's Wife (1947)N/ANominated

Academy Awards (Honorary Oscars)

YearAwardDescription
1938IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARDSamuel Goldwyn [NOTE: Did not win the award. This is the only year that nominations were announced for the Thalberg award.]
1946IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARDSamuel Goldwyn
1957JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARDSamuel Goldwyn

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.

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Best Picture Oscar 1946
WINNER
Productions
The Best Years of Our Lives
Nominee
J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films
Henry V
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Liberty Films
It's a Wonderful Life
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20th Century-Fox
The Razor's Edge
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Samuel Goldwyn on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame

1631 Vine Street


Ceremony Date: Feb 8, 1960
Category: Motion Pictures
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Samuel Goldwyn Facts
In 1917 he merged his production company with All-Star Feature Films Corp., owned by brothers Edgar Selwyn and Archibald Selwyn, creating the Goldwyn Pictures Corp. The symbol of the new company was a reclining lion, surrounded by a banner made from a strip of celluloid film with the words "Ars Gratia Artis" ("Art for Art's Sake") at the top, which was designed by Howard Dietz. The trademark adorned the front gate of the studio's Culver City, California, production facilities, which ranked with the finest in Hollywood (the inspiration for the original "Leo the Lion" likely were the stone lions at the New York Public Library on 44th St., which was across from the All-Star Feature Corp.'s offices). Goldfish liked the name of the new studio so much that he renamed himself Samuel Goldwyn. He was forced out of the company in 1922. It was merged with Loew's Inc.'s Metro Pictures in 1924 through a stock swap, creating Metro-Goldwyn, which subsequently merged with Louis B. Mayer Productions, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was born--even though Goldwyn himself had nothing to do with the company that bore his name (he tried legal action to prevent the new company from using it, but lost). Goldwyn, who h
At one time Goldwyn was scheduled to appear as the "Mystery Guest" on the TV game show "What's My Line?" (1950), in which panelists are blindfolded and have to guess who the Mystery Guest is. The show's rules required that panelists who found out the Mystery Guest's identity before he or she appeared on the show had to disqualify themselves. A few days before his scheduled appearance, Goldwyn ran into panelist Dorothy Kilgallen in a restaurant and said, "Guess what, Dorothy? I'm going to be on your show Sunday night!" She told him that since she now knew he would be the Mystery Guest, she'd have to disqualify herself. A few days later Goldwyn ran into Bennett Cerf, also a panelist on the show, and said, "Guess what, Bennett? I did a really dumb thing the other day and told Dorothy that I'm going to be on your show Sunday night!" Cerf also was forced to disqualify himself, resulting in the only double disqualification in the show's history.
When Goldwyn emigrated to the US, an Immigration Service clerk changed his last name from "Gelbfisz" to what he thought was its English translation, "Goldfish". Sam changed it to Goldwyn when he went into partnership with producer Edgar Selwyn, combining the first syllable of "Goldfish" with the last syllable of "Selwyn". He originally wanted to do the opposite, until someone pointed out that it would result in his new name being "Selfish".
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